Exam question 2 · Danish Fairy Tales, Clever Jesper, part 37: Jesper herds a…

What was the precise instruction given to Jesper regarding the contents of the tub?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, give, regard · To what, where: precise instruction, Jesper

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1786 «Danish Fairy Tales, Clever Jesper, part 37: Jesper herds a hundred hares and collects three strange payments» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 instruction	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 instruction	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 instruction	det
4	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 instruction	amod
5	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 instruction	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Jesper	case
8	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 given	obl
9	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 contents	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 contents	det
11	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 given	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 tub	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tub	det
14	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 contents	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 instruction	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the precise instruction			tree rules
2	give	participle	the precise instruction not said here	Jesper	regard the contents of the tub	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to jesper=Recipient
3	regard	gerund				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To tell lies until the tub is full

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 tell	mark
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tell	obj
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 full	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tub	det
6	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 full	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 full	cop
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tell	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		lies					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient
2	is	present	the tub					full property	tree rules

Option 2

Tell some truths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 truths	det
3	truths	truth	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	some truths					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To state undoubted truths sufficient to fill it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 state	mark
2	state	state	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sufficient	advcl
3	undoubted	undoubt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 truths	amod
4	truths	truth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 state	obj
5	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fill	mark
7	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sufficient	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	state speech: other	to-infinitive	undoubted truths	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent truth=Topic
2	undoubt	participle		tree rules
3	fill	to-infinitive	it	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

To state some truths enough to fill it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 state	mark
2	state	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 truths	det
4	truths	truth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 state	obj
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	2 state	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fill	mark
7	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 state	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	to-infinitive		some truths				enough property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent truth=Topic
2	fill	to-infinitive		it					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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